Building A Team Quotes

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Motivational, Success, Teamwork

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

Donald Knuth

Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

Teamwork, Men, Grieving

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tom Landry

Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

John Wooden

Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership, Teamwork, Dream

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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Confucius

Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Casey Stengel

Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

Bear Bryant

Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Player

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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

Stephen Covey

Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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No individual can win a game by himself.

Pele

Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

Pele, Robert L. Fish (2013). “My Life and the Beautiful Game”, p.170, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Teamwork, Travel, Home

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If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

John P. Wheeler III

Teamwork, People, Team Building

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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Bahá'u'lláh

Teamwork, Powerful, Light

"Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi (pp. 287-289), 1935.

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Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

Ted Sundquist

Motivational, Teamwork, Block

Ted Sundquist, Justin Spizman (2013). “Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great Teams Like the Pros”, p.7, McGraw-Hill Professional

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It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork, Simple, People

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Henry Ford

Motivational, Teamwork, Business

Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

Orrin Woodward

Teamwork, Leader, Inspire

Twitter post from Jul 22, 2017

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Two heads are better than one.

Unknown

Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harvey S. Firestone

Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Patrick Lencioni

Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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